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Well, it looks like we lived through the 2012 doomsday prophecies Much like Y2K, there was much fanfare but little in the way of activity. But will this year bring with it the unluckiness of its number 13? Who knows. But you can be guaranteed some action in the mobile ecosystem.

We’ve been using computers to enhance our world for many years. We’ve even used computers to built our own imaginary worlds through the magic of virtual reality. Augmented reality (AR) is the use of virtual reality in combination with the real world to provide an enhanced experience for the user. One of the more common examples is in football (the US version) where a computer-generated line is shown on television for the first down marker. As real world items (players, objects) pass in front of it, the portion of the line that would be behind the item disappears (called occlusion). It has been featured in several sci-fi flicks such as the Predator movies, the Terminator series, Minority Report, Avatar and the Iron Man movies.